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When Baptist Jacqueline Allen of Chapel Hill began participating this month in the Moral Monday protests against the Republican-led North Carolina legislature, she got a loving-but-firm admonition from her daughter and son-in-law: don’t get arrested. “An 81-year-old doesn’t need to be in jail,” Allen said with a laugh today while attending CBF General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C. “I don’t want to get arrested.” But she does want to join the thousands of other protesters, many of them driven by religious beliefs, and make known her dismay at budget cuts that threaten education, health care and other social programs in North...

President Barack Obama laughs with HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius in the Grand Foyer of the White House, July 26, 2012. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. Washington D.C., Jun 28, 2013 / 05:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite assurances from the Obama administration that the finalized version of the contraception mandate accounts for freedom of conscience, some religious liberty advocates are still concerned. “The final rule,” explained Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, “is not very different from the inadequate rule that was proposed back in February.” While the final rule “tinkered with...

MOSCOW, June 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree to allocate about $20 million to renovate the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Nice, the largest Russian Orthodox Cathedral outside Russia. The decree, posted on the Russian government’s official website for legal information on Friday, says the building will be handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church for “use without charge” when the renovation is complete.

John-Henry shows Pope Francis photo of his family on his IPhone Over a decade ago, LifeSiteNews co-founder Steve Jalsevac and I were surprised to learn that the Vatican makes use of LifeSiteNews.com’s news and information.  We learned this information directly from one of the participants at a high level Vatican meeting. Since learning this we’ve made yearly or twice yearly trips to Rome to meet with various curial officials to share information and learn how best to help them advance the pro-life and pro-family cause.  On the most recent of these trips, earlier this month, I was even able to...

Traditional marriage advocates have long argued that once you establish that marriage is simply a contract between consenting adults, polygamy is a necessary logical outgrowth. And every time we attempted to raise this point, others explained to us to shutup. Well, it seems that shutup time is done as polygamists are celebrating The Supreme Court's decision as well. Buzzfeed reports:The Supreme Court’s rulings in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday were greeted with excitement by polygamists across the country, who viewed the gay rights victory as a crucial step toward the country’s inevitable acceptance of plural marriage. Anne Wilde, a vocal...

What Catholics Need Now: A Letter to Our Priests and Bishops By Emily Stimpson To Our Spiritual Fathers, Please forgive the public nature of this letter. In a sense, it goes against my personal rule of not criticizing priests or bishops in print. But only in a sense. You see, this letter isn’t meant as criticism, although I know some will take it that way. It’s more a cry for help, a plea or a prayer. After the Supreme Court rulings on marriage, I don’t know what else to do. Or where else to go. So I’m coming to you,...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), a “faith-based” group that claims that Jesus would support abortion and has manipulated many in the church to follow suit and promote abortion as a God-given right that allows women to be in control over their own lives.Recently we’ve written extensively about the connection of the United Methodist Church to this abhorrent group. My disgust at this group is less about them promoting abortion, as it is about promoting abortion as if they are doing the work of Jesus. As I have been reading some...

You will almost always see the two words "I think..." when someone is claiming to know or follow the teachings of Christ but their worldview and lifestyle run in direct opposition to His. For example: "I am a Christian who loves Jesus but I think today's Supreme Court decision was a good thing." SULLIVAN: "I think Jesus is weeping for joy. I don’t think Jesus is on the other side of this. Although I don't wanna claim to know anything about that. But I do know that Jesus was always on the side of love,” Sullivan asserts himself on behalf...

Is Nancy Pelosi a Satanist? There have been plenty of religions in history that'd agree with her that the murder of innocents is sacred - but the Catholic Church is not one of them Jun 27, 2013 John Zmirak A secular radio host called my cell phone while I was busy at a conference, asking me to explain to his non-Catholic listeners whether the Church really considered abortion “sacred.” I was, for a rare moment, speechless. He pointed me to the news piece reporting Nancy Pelosi’s statement to a Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack, summarized as follows by The Blaze...

Special Report – Gay Roman Clergy 06-27-2013 Hello everyone and welcome to this Special Report from Rome with more details on reports of a homosexual prostitution ring involving roman clergy with ties to the Vatican and young teenage boys complete with accusations of Satanism. The Italian media began reporting earlier today on a group of homosexual priests and possibly bishops being investigated by Roman police and prosecutors for their involvement in a network of young teenage male prostitutes. Details are now coming out that one of the recruiters for the ring .. a former Rome policeman .. was also involved...

Pope Francis and the drama of sodomy in the Church and in the Diocese of Rome The explosive report by La7 network The affirmation by Pope Francis that there is a “gay lobby” in the Vatican, should not be reduced to an extemporaneous quip, but evaluated and weighed in all of its tragic consequences. “There are truly some saintly people in the Curia, but there is also a current of corruption. There is talk of a “gay lobby” , and it is true, it exists. We have to see what we can do about it.” The Holy Father pronounced...

There is no doubt about it, the times,they have changed. The United States of America has an official new state religion and it is godless Secularism based upon the Humanist Manifesto (press here to read it). Godless Secularism elevates the human individual into a god and makes the worship of the individual the centerpiece as it shunts the common good to the periphery as well as forcing authentic religion and her true God into the private and personal never to influence the public. This new state religion influences in powerful ways the politics of this land and many politicians...

Flashback:  A church group that owns beachfront property discriminated against a lesbian couple by not allowing them to rent the locale for their civil union ceremony, a New Jersey department ruled Monday in a case that has become a flash point in the nation’s gay rights battle.The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights said its investigation found that the refusal of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to rent the oceanfront spot to the couple for their same-sex union in March 2007 violated the public accommodation provisions of the state’s Law Against Discrimination.While the ruling is decisively in favor of...

Another sign of the decay: DOJ cuts funding of Young Marines program for mentioning ‘God’A Louisiana sheriff is standing firm on not accepting Department of Justice funds for the Young Marines program after he was told he couldn’t mention God if he wanted the funding. Bossier Parrish Sherriff Julian Whittington said the demand infringes on his religious freedoms.Whittington said he was appalled at the funding condition, spelled out in a letter from the Justice Department saying any mention of “God” or any “voluntary prayers” could not be included in the program if it was to receive the $30,000 in funding.“Last...

Psalm 18:33 He Fills me with Strength and Protects me wherever I Go. He Gives me the Sure-footedness of a Mountain Goat upon the Crags. He Leads me Safely upon the Top of the Cliffs. He Prepares me for Battle, and Gives me Strength to Draw an Iron Bow.

Italian investigators have opened an inquiry into claims by a convicted paedophile priest that an underage prostitution ring has been operating inside the Holy Roman Church with clergymen hiring rentboys for sex inside churches. Don Patrizio Poggi, 46, told Italian authorities that a former Carabinieri pimped boys for nine clergymen. Poggi, who served a five-year sentence for abusing teenage boys while he was a parish priest at the San Filippo Neri church in Rome, said he made the allegations to "protect the Holy Church and the Christian community." The boys were chosen because they were starving and desperate, he claimed,...

The Supreme Court has now ruled on two monumental marriage cases, and the legal and cultural landscape has changed in this country. The court voted to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and remand the decision of the Ninth Circuit in the Proposition 8 case, holding that California's Proposition 8 defenders didn't have standing. The Defense of Marriage Act decision used rather sweeping language about equal protection and human dignity as they apply to the recognition of same-sex unions. But what has changed for us, for our churches, and our witness to the gospel? In one sense, nothing. Jesus...

Published on Jun 27, 2013Disturbing news from the Vatican - stay tuned for more details.

”The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.” —President Barack Obama, June 26, 2013 ”I will tell you that I don’t believe in gay marriage . . . .” —Sen. Barack Obama, March 2, 2008Yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 should have come as no surprise to anyone. The handwriting was on the wall as far back...

MOSCOW, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russians will be limited to a maximum three legal marriages under a bill to be introduced in the lower house of the Russian parliament, Gazeta.ru said on Thursday. The bill, drafted by Yevgeny Mazepin, a public figure in the central Russian city of Voronezh, is to be submitted to the State Duma by members of the Family, Women and Children Affairs Committee headed by Yelena Mizulina.